Capacity Management
Search Storage, Monday, August 28,2023
Capacity management is the broad term describing a variety of IT monitoring, administration and planning actions that ensure that a computing infrastructure has adequate resources to handle current data processing requirements, as well as the capacity to accommodate future loads.
The tools used for capacity management include spreadsheets with manually compiled performance information, the "element managers" often included with computing devices, and specialized software or hardware that provides extremely detailed insights into how computing components function.
Managing IT infrastructure has become more complex in recent years and companies have augmented or replaced in-house systems with resources provided by cloud services. The cloud services require the same degree of capacity management, performance management and capacity planning as on-premises gear, so more holistic capacity management and planning tools have been introduced to adequately address these hybrid environments in the management process.